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"CUPPI" stands for "Circumstances Undetermined Pending Police Investigation" - which is what the cagey N.Y. Police Dept. often calls a murder when it doesn't seem likely to be solved. And the CUPPI here is the death of a twelve-year-old girl fallen or pushed from a hotel window in Manhattan's midtown porn district. The police would be happy to w... more »rite the case off, but divorced, obsessed photographer Homer Wood is determined to investigate - because the dead girl looks uncannily like his own daughter. He manages to track down the dead girl's young companion, Winter, and their story emerges in flashbacks: the girls were runaways from two sorts of unloving homes, and, after some good times in NYC, they got fatally involved with some brutal pimps. Homer is eventually aided by the cops - and by his new love, a psychiatric intern - and when they all close in on the child-porn villains, a decoy is needed; so Homer enlists his chirpy twelve-year-old daughter. And meanwhile Winter has disappeared.....« less